In the crowd, an old man heard Song Liyun speak gently and earnestly, and noticed that the Song brothers, Song Zhenping and Song Zhenping, were indeed from poor families.
He couldn't help but think of his children and grandchildren who had been abducted by the Di people.
For several years, his fate has been unknown; perhaps he too has wandered to a foreign land like this.
Tears welled up in her eyes, and she sighed, “Girl! Broken Gold Town is a dead end. Those who can leave are all fleeing. Only those of us who can’t leave are left behind. Why are you so young and coming here to make a living?”
As you can see, in such a large town, there are plenty of empty houses.
"You can choose where you want to live; no one's stopping you. The wasteland outside town is also under the military's jurisdiction; whether or not it's cultivated is up to the soldiers."
Seeing that he was holding a cane in one hand and had his wrist severed in the other, Song Liyun knew that he was a survivor of the tragedy from back then, so she asked him about her requirements for a house.
When the original residents of the town saw that Song Liyun really intended to settle down in Suijin Town, they told her about the town's situation.
At this moment, Song Liyun learned that the number of people who died in Suijin Town was not hundreds or thousands as rumored, but only more than thirty.
People are money, so the Di people did not kill indiscriminately. Instead, they tied people together with ropes, abducted them back to the grasslands, sold them as slaves, or waited for ransom to be paid.
Broken Gold Town is located deep in the mountains, where news travels slowly, and this matter is far too horrifying.
In addition, the spread of misinformation by big-mouthed people like Song Dekui led to the town of Suijin becoming a ghost town filled with corpses.
The empty yards in town now are ownerless belongings left behind by their abducted owners.
“Miss Song, the best house in Suijin Town is not in the town itself, but by the Huangsha River in the west of the town.”
"Yes, there was the best house there... but unfortunately it was burned to the ground and became the most haunted house."
The town's original inhabitants all looked terrified when they mentioned that house.
Song Liyun was somewhat puzzled.
Although the death toll in Broken Gold Town was only a little over thirty, it still filled the small streets, and it remains a chilling and unforgettable memory to this day.
But when these people talked about the town, they were very indifferent and detached, showing no concern for the dead.
Everyone gets excited when the house outside town is mentioned, claiming it's haunted.
What are those fleeting, elusive shadows, and those eerie cries during a full moon?
That ghost will also harm people.
Many people initially thought they could find something in the house, but if they went during the day, they would be injured by stones that flew inexplicably, and if they went at night, it would be even worse, as they would be killed directly.
When people finally find the house, they often only see a mangled corpse outside, a truly gruesome sight.
After two people died in succession, no one dared to go near the house anymore.
Xue Xiaoqi stood to the side with a gloomy face, listening to these people talk to Song Liyun about wronged spirits and ghosts. He couldn't help but angrily say, "What nonsense are you talking about? When a person dies, they are just a pile of dirt. There are no ghosts here."
If the dead can still cause trouble, then how many ghost soldiers and generals must the Zhenbei Army have?
The Zhenbei Army guarded Xiashi Pass for more than 20 years, engaging in countless battles, both large and small.
How many mountains of corpses and seas of blood have been traversed there, how many heads of the Di barbarians have been chopped off? If there were ghosts, Xiashi Pass would be filled with them.
Song Liyun also didn't believe in the haunted house theory.
Before the apocalypse, Earth had a population of 10 billion.
The destructive power of high-tech warfare is staggering; several nuclear explosions have directly destroyed the home on which humanity shares a common destiny.
In just a few years, severe weather and high-intensity nuclear radiation reduced the population from tens of billions to two hundred million, nearly causing extinction.
Outside the city, mutated plants and animals induced by radiation dominate, forcing most people to hide in heavily guarded cities.
Song Liyun witnessed with her own eyes how living people turned into dust.
Ten years have passed, and she has not seen a single ghost.
In her mind, every person who died was once someone else's most sincere concern.
If ghosts truly exist, they would surely protect their loved ones and prevent further disasters.
Based on Song Liyun's experience, the haunted houses mentioned by these indigenous people are probably the nests of some kind of creature, and those strange noises are just animal howls.
She...is not afraid of wild beasts.
They chose the land before choosing the house.
At Xue Xiaoqi's suggestion, Song Zhenping selected ten acres of land by the Huangsha River, which was convenient for irrigation and relatively close to the military camp.
They ran around all afternoon and didn't return until dusk.
Xue Xiaoqi kept moving closer to Song Liyun to talk.
After spending the afternoon together, he found the girl to be more and more beautiful, with dimples at the corners of her mouth when she smiled, and his anger had long since vanished.
This Miss Song is good in every way, except that she is disobedient and won't listen to advice. If you say east, she will do west.
If she becomes my wife in the future, I'll have to carefully correct her temperament.
Getting married was a decision Xue Xiaoqi made in half a day.
There's no way around it; even the mosquitoes in the military camp are male. It's rare for a normal, thoughtful man to spend two hours with a girl, so it's no wonder he has other thoughts!
The Zhenbei Army was stationed at Xiashi Pass. The Zhenbei General was strict in disciplining his troops and forbade any harassment of women.
When the soldiers occasionally went to Hecheng, they only dared to sneakily find a private brothel to relieve their desires.
However, Xue Xiaoqi has been in Suijin Town for the past few months and has had no chance to return to the city.
Moreover, he received information that he would likely be stationed here in the future.
He naturally took finding a wife to heart.
At this moment, Song Liyun only wanted to find a suitable place to stay and settle her three siblings down properly, and she didn't take Xiaoqi, who had already started to have ulterior motives, to heart at all.
She spent the afternoon looking for a house and land, but in the evening she returned to the shacks where the laborers lived to eat and sleep.
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